Cotton-seed cleaner and huller.



W. W. VANLANDINGHAM. comm SEED CLEANER AND HULLER. APPLICATION FILEDJUL; 29. 1909.

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W. W. VANLANDINGHAM.

COTTON SEED CLEANER AND HULLER.

- APPLICATION FILED JULY 29, 1909.

Patented Feb. 15, 1910.

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COTTON-SEED CLEANER AND HULLER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLIAM WVALLACE VANLANDINGHAM, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Lone Oak, in the county of Hunt and State ofTexas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton-SeedCleaners and Hullers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in cotton seed hullcrs andcleaners, and the object is to provide means whereby the crushed cottonseeds will be agitated and beaten sufficiently to cause the meat orkernels to be removed from the hulls and after the meat or kernels havebeen removed from the hulls to provide means for the separation of themeats or kernels from the hulls.

The invention consists of certain novel features of construction andcombinations of parts which will be hereinafter fully de scribed andpointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings-Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of themachine; Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view; Fig. 3 is a top planview; Fig. 4 is a detail view of one of the arms showing the brush androds on the arms.

A, represents the frame, which is composed of uprights, 1, and mountedthereon is a hopper, 2, preferably cylindrical in shape. Mounted on theframe is a shaft, 3, which is provided with a large pulley, 4. A pulley,5, is mounted upon the shaft, 3, for causing the shaft. to rotate andthe pulley is adapted to receive power from any suitable source. At theother end of the shaft, 3, a bevel gear wheel 6 is connected, whichmeshes with a bevel gear, 7, on a shaft, 8,

which shaft extends vertically through the hopper, 2. Mounted on theshaft, 8, is a hub, 9, to which are connected curved arms, 10, 10.Brushes, 11, are connected to the bottoms or lower sides of each of thearms, 10, for causing the kernels or meats of the seeds to pass throughthe perforated bottom 12 of the hopper. Mounted upon the upper sides ofthe arms are rods 1.3, 13, which are adapted to pass between rods 14, 14extending downwardly from the top of the hopper. In other words, therods of the hopper and the arms are alternately arranged so that thecrushed seeds are thoroughly agitated and beaten, causing the meats orkernels to be removed from the hulls. The crushed seeds are delivered tothe hopper through an Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 29, 1909.

Patented Feb. 15, 1910.

Serial No. 510,197.

opening 15 formed in the top thereof. The rods 14 are supported by thecross bars 16 of the frame A, and in which cross bars the shaft 8 isjournaled.

Beneath the hopper is a shaker screen 17 which is preferably made ofmetal. The shaker is supported by means of springs 18 which areconnected to the frame. The shaft 19 is mounted in the frame having apulley 20, over which a belt 21 passes and thence over the large pulley4, whereby rotary motion is transmitted to the shaft 19. The shaft 19 isprovided with an eccentric 22 to which is connected an arm 23. The arm23 is connected pivotally to a shaker 17 so that as the shaft 19 isrevolved a reciprocating motion will be transmitted to the shaker. Theshaker is provided with an upper and lower screen. The upper screen 24is provided with a mesh of about threesiXteenths of an inch for abouthalf the distance of the shaker, and for the remaining distance the meshof the screen is about onefourth of an inch, whereas the mesh of thelower screen 25 is about three-thirty sec onds of an inch. At the bottomof the upper screen a trough 26 is formed for conducting the hulls awayfrom the shaker. Another trough 27 is formed at the end of the lowerscreen 25 for the coarse meat-s and hulls which are to be conducted backto the reel (not shown) and treated again, and a third trough 29 isformed at the lower end of the lower screen 25, but directlytherebeneath, for receiving the fine meats or kernels which are to beconveyed to the crushing rolls (not shown). The trough 29 is formed inthe bottom of the shaker 17 as the fine kernels or meats will passthrough the lower screen 25 at the bottom of the shaker down to thetrough 29.

As power is transmitted to the shaft 3 the shaft 8 will be caused torevolve through the gears 6 and 7, thereby causing the arms 10 to berotated and the crushed seeds to be agitated in the hopper and beaten,causing the meats or kernels to be removed from the hulls and the meatsare forced through the perforated openings 12 in the bottom of thehopper on to the screen or shaker 17 by the brushes 11. The brushes willalso force the coarse hulls out through the hopper at one side where anoutlet opening B is formed for the discharge of the hulls. The shaker isbeing constantly reciprocated during the operation of the arms by thepower transmitted to the shaft 19 from the shaft 3 through the belt 21.

From the foregoing it will be see-n that I have provided means for theseparation of the kernels or meats of crushed cotton seeds from thehulls and that the separating action is obtained both in the hopper andafter the meats have been discharged from the hopper.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a cotton seed huller and cleaner, the combination with a frame, ofa hopper having a perforated bottom and an outlet opening, a shaftjournaled in the hopper, arms mounted on the shaft, rods on the arms andhopper alternately arranged, brushes on the arms, and means foroperating the shaft whereby the meats or kernels are forced through thebottom of the hopper and the hulls discharged through the outlet openingin the hopper.

2. In a cotton seed huller and cleaner, the

combination with a frame, of a hopper having openings in the bottomthereof, an outlet opening in the side thereof, a shaft journaled in thehopper, arms mounted on the shaft, rods on the arms and hopperalternately arranged for removing the meats from the hulls of thecrushed seeds, a shaker screen beneath the hopper, brushes on the arms,and means for operating the shaft and shaker screen.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in the presence of twowitnesses.

WILLIAM WALLACE VANLANDINGHAM.

Witnesses:

J. B. JONES, J. D. EDGE.

